Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a crucial aspect critical component of cybersecurity that focuses on controlling, monitoring, and securing the access of to privileged accounts within an organization's IT infrastructure. These accounts have possess elevated permissions and access rights, making them critical to protect from enabling them to perform sensitive tasks such as configuring systems, managing users, and accessing confidential data. Due to their powerful capabilities, privileged accounts are prime targets for unauthorized access and malicious activityactivities, making their protection paramount.
EmpowerID’s Approach to PAM
EmpowerID offers a comprehensive and modern PAM solution tailored for the multi-cloud era. The platform emphasizes achieving zero-standing privilege by ensuring the right access is granted In today's multi-cloud era, organizations require a PAM solution that is both comprehensive and adaptable. EmpowerID addresses this need by offering a modern PAM platform that emphasizes the principle of Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP). This approach ensures that privileged access is granted only to the right identities, at the right time, and for the right duration, across any workload. To cater to diverse organizational requirements, EmpowerID provides two distinct deployment models for PAM: Advanced PAM and Basic PAM.
Advanced PAM
The EmpowerID's Advanced PAM model in EmpowerID is characterized distinguished by its agentless and vaultless architecture. This approach simplifies deployment and reduces management overhead by eliminating the need for agents and credential vaults, while still providing robust protection across cloud and on-premise premises environments. Advanced PAM leverages EmpowerID's modern microservices and Kubernetes-based architecture, enabling delivering scalability and flexibility in diverse IT landscapes.
A key advantage of Advanced PAM is its seamless integration with Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) and Access Management (AM) systems. This integration facilitates enables controlled privilege escalation, delegation management, and task-based automation, effectively extending PAM's capabilities to include Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM). CIEM focuses on managing and securing access entitlements in cloud environments, ensuring compliance and reducing risk.
Key features Features of Advanced PAM include:
Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP): Ensures no Eliminates permanent privileged access, granting elevated permissions only when necessary, thereby minimizing attack surfacesthe attack surface.
Agentless and Vaultless Architecture: Simplifies deployment and management by removing the need for installing agents or maintaining credential vaults.
Microservices and Kubernetes: Provides scalability and flexibility in deploying PAM across diverse Offers scalability and resilience through a containerized architecture that adapts to changing workloads and environments.
Seamless Integration with Major AM and IGA Vendors: Supports open standards for seamless interoperability with major AM and IGA vendors, including platforms like Microsoft Azure, enhancing existing identity infrastructures.
Controlled Privilege Escalation and Delegation Management (CPEDM): Manages Facilitates temporary elevation of privileges and delegation of tasks, ensuring users have appropriate access when needed.
Basic PAM
For organizations that prefer a traditional approach, EmpowerID's Basic PAM use cases, EmpowerID offers model provides a secure, vault-based solution. This model includes a centralized vault where privileged credentials are securely stored and managed. Access to these credentials is governed by granular policies , which that define who can request access, the conditions under which access is granted, the duration of access, and whether the credential's password should be rotated upon check-in or on a schedulepassword rotation schedules.
Key features Features of Basic PAM include:
Secure Credential Vault: Centralized storage of privileged credentials with strong security controls Provides a centralized repository with robust security controls for storing privileged credentials.
Granular Access Policies: Fine Enables fine-tuned control over who credential access, specifying which users can access which credentials and under what conditions.
Automated Password Management: Automated Enhances security by automating password rotation to enhance security and reduce upon check-in or according to a predefined schedule, reducing the risk of compromised credentials.
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EmpowerID's PAM solution is part of a broader, converged Identity Fabric that seamlessly integrates Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), and Access Management (AM) functionalities. This comprehensive approach provides organizations with a unified and streamlined solution platform for managing identities and access across an organization's their entire IT landscape.
By leveraging fine-grained IGA connectors and supporting integration with major vendors, EmpowerID delivers a complete and modular solution that addresses the full spectrum of identity and access management needs. The convergence of PAM, IGA, and AM into a single platform reduces complexity, improves security posture, and enhances operational efficiency.
Benefits of EmpowerID’s Converged Identity Fabric:
Unified Identity Management: Simplifies administration by providing a single interface for managing all aspects of identity and access.
Enhanced Security: Reduces risks by enforcing consistent policies and controls across all identity-related functions.
Scalability and Flexibility: Adapts to organizational growth and changing technological landscapes, including multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
Improved Compliance: Facilitates adherence to regulatory requirements through comprehensive auditing, reporting, and policy enforcement capabilities.